The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Mfat) mishandled millions of dollars in an attempt to shift its IT systems to the cloud and roll out Microsoft Office.
BusinessDesk's Dileepa Fonseka, who broke the story, walks us through what he learned in his reporting.
Then, there's huge potential for digital twins in Aotearoa, New Zealand, but our approach has been siloed and slow.
We learn what it will take to get started from Keri Niven, the digital practice lead at Aurecon and leader of the Smart Cities Digital Twin Maturity Taskforce.
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From the episode
- Millions in the mist: Funds for foreign affairs cloud project allegedly mismanaged - BusinessDesk
- Winston Peters: Mfat will not get a 'cent' to fix $33m IT problem after PWC report - BusinessDesk
- Exemption for Mfat on budget cuts 'isn't acceptable' – Taxpayers' Union - BusinessDesk
- Review of 'out of control' foreign ministry IT project set to be released - BusinessDesk
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade - PwC Independent Quality Assessment of the cloud acceleration programme and digital workspace transformation - PwC
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- New Zealand spent $113m helping build and use US military satellites - NZ Herald
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- Aussies bring their own AI to work, according to Microsoft, LinkedIn - The Australian
- Husic’s $17 million AI déjà vu: Similar program, smaller budget - Smart Company
- Synapse, backed by a16z, has collapsed, and 10 million consumers could be hurt - Tech Crunch
- Microsoft’s new Windows chief on the future of the OS, Surface, and those annoying ads - The Verge
- Musk reveals major supercomputer plans - Newshub
- Google just updated its algorithm. The Internet will never be the same - BBC
- One small step for man, one moderate leap for bank innovation - Newsroom
